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Serbia’s students have won. When we interviewed them for our @democratization.bsky.social article with @pelinamus.bsky.social they told us they would stay away from opposition parties ("they are all the same") and build their own list to beat Vučić. And they just did it! 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1351...

Years Of Learning To Love Self Undone By Single Glimpse Of Body In Self-Checkout Camera https://theonion.com/years-of-learning-to-love-self-undone-by-single-glimpse-of-body-in-self-checkout-camera/

Coaches on fourth down.

The Army obligated another $40.2M to Hadrian, a 1789 Capital company where Donald Trump Jr. is a partner. Signed in July but only now public on USASpending, under DoD's 90-day reporting delay

My God, the Democratic scandals are so pathetic. They are not even scandals. They gotta start doing crypto dinners or something.

Our society is governed by a reactionary's imagination of what an 18th century reactionary might have believed after he had a few beers

Does arresting the wife of an enlisted man and mother of four US citizen children, a person who’s been here since she was 6 years old, make our country great again?

A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability

It would be a monumental improvement for America, but especially for the Republican Party, if we elected the President through a plurality vote.

Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.

“Instead of respecting the law, those in power invoke it when it serves their interests and disregard it when it restrains them, treating even justice itself as though it were a commodity to be bought and sold.” — Pope Leo XIV

The post pandemic period has produced a surging amount of millionaire households. Our collective net worth has gone from $109 trillion to $174 trillion. People don't like to hear this because it adds nuance to the wealth inequality debate.

@vermontgmg.bsky.social pushes for "a long, long, long series of consequences" when Democrats take charge: "We need to return to punishing people who do obvious crimes. Make Crimes Criminal Again." His list of such crimes is devastating (and only partial). www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-the-a...

The war in Ukraine was once split between fighting at the front and safer cities farther back. But drone innovations have made it much harder to know where the battle areas start and stop

doctor collections says your pocketbook doesn't matter

The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.

Read only the first and last sentence of this paragraph

This is actually the platonic ideal of a Bret Stephens take

Federal employees were paid $9.5 billion not to work in 2025 under DOGE. As part of the Trump-Musk DOGE program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435%.

For these guys, it was never about illegal immigration, it was never about cultural assimilation. You can be born in America, drinking beer as you cheer on the Longhorns, but its not enough if you are not white.

A major development in US politics since, well, Elon Musk took over Twitter is that Republican politicians are now more racist than their base when it used to be the opposite.

Political parties are not armies; their members’ duty is not merely to obey. They should debate, adapt and attract talent. We explain how, without arguments, they become stagnant

Savannah Bananas Commemorate 9/11 With Solemn ‘Macarena’ Performance https://theonion.com/savannah-bananas-commemorate-9-11-with-solemn-macarena-performance/

What lesson can you draw from this other than that Republican voters are soft headed swine

Statement from Gov. Mike DeWine: "I think we have to ask ourselves: is this really good? Is it what we want done to people like this being picked up and facing deportation? Do we want that being done in our name?"

I would like ask JD Vance about Pierre Damas Bel.

i do think a lot of mainstreamers have missed the ball on how musk has moved past "rich guy with funny opinions on race science" and into "literally just a nazi"

I have a trade deficit with my beer store. I give them money, they give me beer.

Never before have Israeli settlers acted as violently as today. Crucially, never before have they enjoyed the impunity the current government gives them

what infuriates me about the wnba sophie cunningham stories that quote 0 trans people is that it's a controversy about us that involves none of us and nobody covering it has any interest in what we think or feel about it

The Assistant Attorney General has confessed she is "inspir[ed]" by election criminal Tina Peters.

Trump already won the 2024 election — not because I voted for him but because clearly many voters (unlike me!!!) did not view January 6 etc etc as deal-breakers. But he has become incredibly unpopular as his broken promises on the cost of living have come home to roost.

The study in this paper is not nearly strong enough to support the claim and it's driving me nuts. Measured at the congressional district level the paper says it shifted the vote to Harris by 1.5 percent but it doesn't hold at the county level! Not particularly robust.

Rep. Ralph Norman, who’s in a Senate runoff with Lindsey Graham’s sister Darline, secretly urged a military-backed coup in 2021 to keep Trump in power. But the NY Times thinks it’s no big deal. In its last 92 stories mentioning Norman over 3 years and 7 months, it hasn’t stated that fact once. 1/7🧵

Whatever else was wrong with the United States, we truly did have a higher education system that was the envy of the world. Now we’re lighting it on fire because some people are bored and racist.

The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning

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PETE HEGSETH: Napoleon, how do we defeat Iran? AI NAPOLEON: Vaccines? You have vaccines? PETE HEGSETH: Yes but they're woke and gay AI NAPOLEON: Send me typhus vaccine PETE HEGESTH: No, I need your help with Iran, we're running low on artillery AI NAPOLEON: Vaccines then Iran

the american paradox

DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...

Possibly the greatest single male athletic performance of all time Original post

This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING.

‘babe you look gorgeous tonight can i post a picture? nothing horrid don’t worry’

Thank you @jamellebouie.net any time I see him discussed like he's not a psychotic racist freak I go insane www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

Defeated Man Too Tired To Fight New $14.99 Fee On Phone Bill https://theonion.com/defeated-man-too-tired-to-fight-new-14-99-fee-on-phone-1847501796/

[Me after getting thrown out of a bar] I own this bar, actually

Having kids make you realize that the corniest things you heard about sports - it's not winning or losing, it's how you play the game, be a good sport, be a good teammate, what really matters is effort - are all 100% true, valuable life lessons.